Re: Greenberg's Word Order Universals
From: | Nik <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Friday, September 15, 2000, 6:21 |
Marcus Smith wrote:
> 300 may be, if the selections were random,
> and distributed across families and areas so that there is no clumping.
And even if a rule like that about the VSO having rigid order still
holds true in a sample of 300 or more, it could very well be that we
simply haven't found the exception.
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